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Summer Academy - students lend helping hands

Posted on Aug 25, 2009

Summer Academy - students lend helping hands

Lauralton rising sophomores unselfishly spent two weeks of their summer vacation as volunteers choosing to help other children improve their skills. Nine students from the Class of 2012 were chosen to assist 6th, 7th and 8th graders from St. Martin de Porres Academy who were attending Lauralton’s Summer Academy program. This program is open to invited middle school girls attending St. Martin de Porres Academy. Each participant receives a full scholarship to the program which strives to encourage, challenge, support and broaden the experiences of the girls while reinforcing their academic skills in an effort to help prepare them for success in the next school year. The volunteers excitedly tutored and mentored the middle school girls everyday as the girls in the program followed a daily schedule of classes in Spanish, math, language arts and physical education. Lauralton students who were so generous in sharing of themselves and of their summer vacation made the following statements regarding their rewarding experience:

Caroline McCarthy, ’12 of Huntington said “bonding with the girls from St. Martin de Porres Academy this summer gave us two weeks of fun, but more importantly, an experience that we will always remember.”

Equally gratified from her memorable experience is Abbey Guerino, ’12 of Milford who commented “this experience was unforgettable! Not only did I help the girls learn, but they taught me lessons as well!”

 



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